Garland’s DOJ: We had to hold back on the Biden investigation in order to save the Biden investigation
Something like that. Something absolutely, obviously absurd like that.
Here’s the supposed explanation for the kid-glove treatment of Biden:
President Biden’s legal team has cooperated with Justice Department investigators, helping it avoid more aggressive actions by law enforcement thus far….
One reason not to involve the FBI at an early stage: That way the Justice Department would preserve the ability to take a tougher line, including executing a future search warrant, if negotiations ever turned hostile, current and former law-enforcement officials said.
I was unaware that the DOJ and FBI only got one bite at the apple. But no, they don’t just get one bite at the apple, so this excuse seems nonsensical.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Justice Department was given the opportunity to conduct the search for classified material in the Biden office and residences, but declined to do so. Instead, it allow uncleared and unnamed private counsel to search for classified material after the discovery of the highly classified documents in the Penn Biden Center office. It was a decision that could benefit Biden greatly, but at a considerable cost to the department itself.
If true, the decision raises additional questions over the independence of top law enforcement personnel.
Ya think?
Bias is so difficult to deny here that I wonder whether they possibly want the bias to be obvious, to demoralize and frustrate the right still further – because, after all, what can the right do about it at the moment? Vote to impeach Garland in the House? So what?
Turley goes on:
This follows a litany of controversies involving both Donald Trump and Biden where the FBI and DOJ have been accused of political bias and unequal treatment. While the FBI recently denounced critics as “conspiracy theorists,” the record of inexplicable decisions continues to grow by the day.
I think Turley means “the record of otherwise inexplicable decisions continues to grow by the day.”
More:
There is no plausible reason why, given the chance, the Justice Department would not want to conduct a national security search itself. After Nov. 2, the Justice Department was aware that material at the top secret or higher levels was discovered in a closet in the Penn Biden Center. It was also aware that the material may have been moved over the course of six years and that other material could be in other unsecured locations. Nevertheless, it reportedly opted to allow uncleared attorneys to search for additional classified material under a type of “look but please don’t read” edict.
As someone who has worked with classified evidence at the TS/SCI level since the Reagan administration, the decision is breathtaking. It effectively replaced well-established national security protocols with an honor system to be followed by persons unknown…
The decision undermines the credibility of the Justice Department in both the Biden and Trump investigations.
Did they have any credibility left, even before this? But he’s correct that this undermines what was left, if anything.
However, the Justice Department continued to defer to Biden’s counsel like a mere pedestrian at a potential crime scene.
I think that’s too kind. Even a rubbernecking pedestrian takes cellphone photos and videos these days, but the FBI did not. In shades of the Hillary Clinton email “investigation,” the whole thing was done on trust.
Oh, and about “preserving the ability to take a tougher line”? Here’s what Turley writes about what he calls that “baffling” statement:
It is akin to saying that I could have used my keys to enter the home but that would have meant that I could not later force the residents to open the door. If it conducted the search, it could record the search, seize the documents, and take any position it wanted after the fact.
Whatever the endgame here, it certainly was never to treat VP Biden (who had no ability to declassify documents taken at the time) as they had treated former president Trump (who did have the right but whom they treated as a criminal instead). Whatever they’re trying to say to the American public, they’re not trying to make sense to any thinking person – they’re just giving the left some (admittedly weak) talking points, and then they’re doing exactly what they want to do.
What is their goal? Perhaps it’s to keep their options open. If at some future point they want to get rid of Biden, they have this weapon. I don’t think they’re planning that now, though. Meanwhile, they can cite “don’t taint our investigation!” if the House wants any cooperation from them in the House’s investigation of the same set of circumstances.
Hey, it’s just Biden’s and the demokrats NKVD / Cheka doing their job.
Show me the man and I’ll show you he is innocent.
Two tier justice systems, one for their buddies and the other for their opponents
In a sane world, this would be enough to impeach Garland. He withheld the federal bureau that conducts investigations, because they may interfere with an investigation. There is only one reason that this would be rational, and that’s if the Defense Intelligence Agency was investigating due to the classified material being DoD related. However, I don’t even think that is a conspiracy theory being suggested, and if there was potential, than a raid of the Biden home would certainly be warranted. So this is just plain corruption by Garland and Wray, but as Garland sanctioned it, he needs to go.
Given all these recent events I’d be curious to know how the general voting public views the actual credibility of the FBI and Justice Department at this point. Obviously the overwhelming majority of conservatives view these institutions as extremely biased, but how about moderates/independents? Do they know or care about all of this?
I assume most Democrat voters are generally OK with this blatantly unequal treatment. Maybe they simply can’t imagine the dangers of having a huge swath of the public having absolutey zero trust in the integrity of these critical institutions. And maybe they can’t imagine the precedence of those in power dispropotionately prosecuting political advisaries who are out of power could ever be used against them?
Who leaked the fact that there were classified files in the Penn Biden Center office? This would almost have to be someone in intelligence, I think. They don’t want Biden to run in 2024. But, in this scenario, Garland and Wray don’t want Biden forced to resign, because that would mean Harris. Result: No 2024 run for Biden, no Harris presidency.
And, of course, loss of public confidence in the FBI/DOJ, but that was already gone for the half of the country they despise.
Symbolic though it will be, the impeachment of Garland is absolutely necessary, as is that of Mayorkas. As for two-tiered justice, the very hallmark of Biden’s Department of (In)Justice, the bill (described by our host a few days ago) introduced by the odious intellectual midget Sheila Jackson Lee (although it will go nowhere) is perhaps the most blatantly and egregiously unconstitutional assault on freedom of speech and on impartial justice in recent history. A republic in which the legal system is deployed purely as an ideological weapon against political enemies cannot long endure.
The democrats I know believe that Biden has been fully cooperative and forthcoming about all of this pesky top secret nonsense.
Trump, however, was selling secrets to the Russians from Mar-a-Lago and should be in prison because he is lying scum.
So it’s being treated differently because one person is a fine upstanding public servant and the other a traitorous villain.
Until the MSM comes out and calls Biden a criminal, as they have Trump for all these years, not one of them will think any different. They also believe that anyone who disagrees with them on this is an insurrection sympathizer.
Gosh, what will Mona Charen think?
(How about, Since Trump is THE CLEAR AND PRESENT—ACTUALLY, OMNIPRESENT—DANGER to the Republic, then ANYTHING that is done to keep Trump out of power by ANYONE, or any BODY, which includes ANY government agency, e.g., DOJ, FBI, LE, the IC, and of course the PATRIOTIC MEDIA—is permitted, DESIRABLE AND NECESSARY…even if it upsets people such as Jonathan Turley, etc….)
It’s just another “We have to destroy the country to protect the country” deal (though what that pithy phrase really means is, “Our real goal is to destroy the country; but CLAIMING that our goal is to protect and save the country makes things a whole lot easier for us to do so”…)
“inexplicable” is where conspiracy theories come from.
Indeed, only “inexplicable” IF one is unwilling to comprehend that the DOJ—and MOST IF NOT ALL other government agencies—have been weaponized to serve as (paraphrasing Obama’s illustrious first AG) “Biden”‘s wingmen, wingwomen and wingcreatures (together with “his” Praetorian Guard Media/Infotech legions).
Of the two, Biden and Trump, the one most likely to have leaked classified information to a foreign adversary is Biden (via his son).
Rereading thought about during the aftermath of Mar-A-Lago it was reported Bark has a warehouse unsecured and full of his records I Chicago. Can only assume it’s still there in the same reported condition.
Out of sight out of mind and no one cares to look.
I’ll say this about Garland’s DOJ: When they want to be dogged, they can be doggedly dogged to the nth decree and the bitter end.
DOJ Still Fighting in Court for Forced Masking on Transportation
Inconceivablr actually it makes perfect sense
Since Neo posted a song from The Mikado on the open thread, it jogged my memory of the Lord High Executioner’s song from the same operetta. There’s a comic opera version of Merrick Garland for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH69RCIB0bk&ab_channel=viddywell2001
One more reason to be glad that “moderate” Garland never made it to the Supreme Court. Partisan hack…
PA+Cat, thanks for the Lord High Executioner. Visual and vocal excellence
Gringo–
Glad you liked it. I particularly enjoyed the part around 1:55, when the Lord High Executioner whacks his own butt crack with that ridiculously oversized axe. Couldn’t happen to a better Garland.
The graphic on my Tshirt shows Trump smiling and labeled “The People’s Pez”.
It’s compliment has Biden in Philadelphia with his fists raised, and the words “The Oligarch’s Prez.”
DO YOU NEED TO KNOW MORE?
@ PA Cat – The story of the Lord High Executioner is not only germane to AG Garland, but to the actions of many of the “justice departments” in most of our Democrat-run states.
[KO-KO]
Taken from the county jail
By a set of curious chances;
Liberated then on bail
On my own recognizances;
Wafted by a favouring gale
As one sometimes is in trances
To a height that few can scale
Save by long and weary dances;
I understand that The Mikado has triggered the Cultural Appropriation Cancellation Brigades.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cultural-appropriation-theater-forced-rewrite-ben-shapiro
It’s not the only victim.
(I link to the comment because it refers to the G&S operetta in a manner resonant with the Shapiro post, but RTWT and weep.)
https://www.city-journal.org/revival-of-giacomo-puccini-turandot-tramples-on-new-theatrical-orthodoxy#comment-5568900034
If This Goes On there won’t be much remaining worth watching.
Which could be the intention, of course.
From Turley’s post:
This is standard operating procedure for the Democrat-controlled Swamp (there isn’t a better word for the cartel, which no longer operates clandestinely).
For other instances:
(1) Hillary Clinton’s lawyers were the only ones who examined her trove of bootleg emails and then deleted over 30000 despite them being under subpoena – no one was prosecuted or even seriously inconvenienced. She claimed they were personal and private, but when some were later forensically retrieved many were in fact work related and classified.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-deleted-33000-emails-secretary-state/story?id=42389308
But, hey! — maybe all Biden had was recipes – only Whoopi knows for sure!
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/01/18/when-idiocy-and-lies-collide-whoopi-and-swalwell-dismiss-bidens-classified-docs-scandal-with-ridiculous-theory-n690417
(2) The FBI allowed Crowdstrike to tell them what was going on with the hack of the DNC server, which the Bureau never examined.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2020/10/04/exclusive-excerpt-how-the-dnc-hired-crowdstrike-to-frame-russia-for-the-hack/
https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/10/exclusive-special-counsels-office-is-investigating-the-2016-dnc-server-hack/
I’m sure there are more examples.
An excellent post on the Clinton Classified Standard, extended to Biden and forbidden to Trump:
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/09/15/unpacking_the_apparent_trump-hillary_double_standard_in_which_the_fbi_helped_obstruct_its_own_investigation_853619.html
Along those lines — plus, I prefer the Car-a-lago appellation to the over-worked “garagegate.”
https://ussanews.com/2023/01/13/car-a-lago-jesse-watters-says-fbi-may-be-getting-revenge-on-biden-as-he-pulls-from-hillarys-playbook/
Bumped from another thread; it has a certain plausibility.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2023/01/16/this-is-the-first-explanation-of-why-the-biden-classified-documents-story-came-out-that-makes-sense-to-me/#comment-2662410
Art of the deal!
I’m shocked, shocked that you would propose harm to ongoing matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
John Tyler
The FBI and DOJ should be issued SS collar tabs.
A few too many words in this one…
“We had to hold back on the Biden investigation in order to save Biden.”
There. Fixed it.
Sorry Ben.
It was a republic. We couldn’t keep it.